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About me

My insights are valueable to share.  I am a published poet, both in the US and overseas.

Ray has been writing both prose and poetry since he was seventeen. What Ray is writing now is very different from what he wrote those so many years ago. All writers and poets are writing out of “the Self” however there are directions that the self speaks into, that change. Now Ray’s writing is to put foremost in his work, just who he is writing for. He intends on writing for the everyday man and woman. He firmly believes that poems need to reach into the everyday person’s pictures in their minds, and engage with those. This is where he aims to make a difference in his creative writing. He’s fulfilled when he sees that his work is provoking thought in his readers.

Ray has read around the state of North Carolina [USA] and Colorado [USA], and has been a member or the North Carolina Poetry Society, the Winston-Salem Writers, and The North Carolina Writer’s Network. He has thrice been a ‘Writer-in-Residence” at the North Carolina Center For The Arts and Humanities, at Weymouth, in Southern Pines, NC. He is the father of two daughters, and lives in Colorado Springs, USA.

He has three books published by Newness Twoness Books,

“ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Poems From The ‘Nam,” 2 volume set,  2nd Edition in 03/2019; “23, 18,” 118 pages, 2nd Edition in 02/2020;

and “FOR THE LOST AND LOVED,” 114 pages, 2021.

He has one other book he is presently seeking publication for: ‘WHITE DOG SPEAKING,” 88 pages;

A chapbook, “THE SCUPPERNONG WORKS” is published last month of August 2022.

Due to the pandemic, most of Ray’s public appearances are via electronic medium.

Some of his work has been published in American, Irish, English, and Bali Literary Journals.

 

My favorite quote

“This is it.” Werner Erhard”

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